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of stout but short bristles with dilated tips; a similar bristle on each an- 
terior angle and two along each side. 
Pterothorax narrower, sides nearly straight, converging posteriorly; 
bearing a few pale, slender spines. Legs long and slender; anterior 
femora somewhat enlarged; fore tarsi with a rather conspicuous thumb- 
shaped forward-directed tooth; a few slender colorless bristles near distal 
end of tibiae. Wings short, scarcely reaching the middle of the abdomen, 
membrane narrow, pale, marginal hairs rather long. 
Abdomen remarkably long and slender, more than twice as long as the 
head and thorax together. Spines on the anterior segments few and 
colorless but rather long, becoming longer and darker posteriorly. 
Described from a single female collected from a Barnacle Scale (Cer- 
oplastes cerripediformis) at Miami, Fla., by Mr. A. C. Mason. 
Type in the author’s collection. 
This thrips is easily recognized by its remarkably long light yellowish 
abdomen. 
Among the collection of thrips taken in and around Miami by 
Mr. A. C. Mason are numerous specimens of a Frankliniella which 
was identified by Mr. A. C. Morgan as close to F’. Cephalica 
(Crawford). It differs, however, from the description of that 
species in many characters and would seem to merit at least 
varietal distinction. F. cephalica was described from Mexico 
and has never been reported from Florida. 
59. Frankliniella cephalica masoni, n. var. 
Differs from the description of the species (Thysanoptera of Mexico 
and the South II. Pomona College Jl. of Ent. Vol. II, No. 1) in the 
following characters: 
Postocular spines short but heavy, the smaller ones absent. Eyes dark 
orange red. Ocelli large, pale yellow, bordered with deep orange crescents, 
situated further forward than in Crawford’s figure. Antennal segment 
1 and basal half of 2 yellow, concolorous with the head; 5, basal half of 4, 
and most of 3 grayish, almost colorless; remainder light brown. 
Posterior angles of the prothorax not as broadly rounded as in Craw- 
ford’s figure, the two stout spines sharply recurved. The spines on the 
anterior angles and those on the anterior margin much shorter. Wing 
membrane usually extending beyond the tip of the abdomen. Anterior 
margin with about 25 spines, anterior vein 23, posterior vein 17. 
Abdomen short and thick, about half as wide as long. 
General color yellow; thorax and tip of abdomen tinged with orange. 
Abdomen with light brown transverse bands. 
Measurements: Head: length .07 mm., width .14 mm.; prothorax: 
length .10 mm., width .17 mm.; mesothorax, width .24 mm.; abdomen, 
width .24 mm.; total length .9 mm. Antennae: 1, 15; 2, 538; 3, 58; 4, 51; 
5, 36; 6, 48; 7, 9; 8, 8 microns; total length .267 mm. 
Like F. cephalica the anterior portion of the head is markedly depressed 
with two stout spines on the edge of the depression in front of the ocelli. 
Anterior ocellus directed forward. These characters, the smaller size, 
